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No. 311,015. Patented Jan. 20,1885.

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FREDERICK LECRAFT, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW' JERSEY.

UMBRELLA RUNNER AND NOTCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,015, dated January 20, 1885.

Application filed March 5, 1884. (No model To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Fnnnnnrcrr LEORAFT, a citizen of the United States, residing in J ersey City, Hudson county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Umbrella Runners and Notches, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings,fornr ing a part of the same.

This invention relates to a construction es pecially adapted for suspended carriagesunshades, and furnishes a means of holding the ribs distended without any stick or fastening device. 1

The means employed consists in the combination of certain features of my invention but the special construction of the notch, with a tubular stop, E, projected toward the runner, may be used also with a frame mounted upon a stick.

In the drawings, Figure l. is a sectional view of an umbrella-frame, or the part connected with the stretchers and the end of the stick shown in place. Fig. 2 is a central sectional view of the invention as constructed without any stick. Fig. 3 is a central section of my combined runner and stop; and Fig. 4, a section of a combined notch, handle, and eye for suspending the frame over a carriageseat.

In the figures, A is the notch, usually made with a short hub, a, by which it is pinned to the stick S. B is the runner, usually made with atube, b, and notched collar 2); and Care the stretchers pivoted thereto in the usual manner. D are the ribs pivoted to the stretchers and top notch, A, in the ordinary manner; but the ribs are so set in constructing the frame that the stretchers may be forced into a line with one another inside the frame, from which line the tension of the frame will tend equally to push them either in or out. If a stick be used, as seen in Fig. 1, the umbrella may be automatically held open by sliding the runner a little past the neutral line, and providing a stop between the .runner and notch. The neutral line is shown at w in Figs. 1 and 2, and the stop E is shown as a tubular piece attached to either the runner or notch, as may be preferred.

In Fig. l the stop is attached to the notch A, the combination being formed by inserting a tube inside the notch and securing the hub of the top of the ordinary runner to give it the the notch thereto by solder or otherwise, the

tube projecting downward into contact with proper position when the frame is opened.

In Fig. 2 the stop is shown attached to the runner, the collar b of the latter in such case being located upon its tubeb ata suitable distance from the upper end, and the lower end of the runner is shown provided with a knob, F, by which it can be moved to and from the notch A.

To secure a similar knob to the notch, a tube, 0, is inserted in its upper side, and a knob, F, 6 is secured therein, by means of which the frame of the sunshade may be held when raising and lowering the stretchers to open or close the shade. An eye, G, is shown secured in the knob F, by which the sunshade can be suspended over the seat of a babys carriage or other vehicle.

In Fig. 3 the combined runner and stop are shown as used in Fig. 2, and in Fig. 4thenotch used in Fig. 2 is shown; but dotted lines E are added to show that the stop might be as effectively added to the notch as to the runner.

In the sunshades suspended over the seats of baby-carriages heretofore a short stick is used, over which the operator is expected to push the runner, a snap-spring being provided in the stick to retain the runner in place, as usual. To avoid lengthening such stick, the runner is inverted and the spring fitted into a slot in the runner-tube, thus compelling the operator to reach up throughthe stretchers to reach and detach the spring.

My construction renders the en tire frame au- 'tomatic in holding the ribs distended and the runner drawn up, and dispenses with the need of any spring in the upper of the handle or stick when one is used, while it still further enables me to dispense entirely with a stick, and to raise and lower a suspended sunshade Without detaching a fastening of any kind.

I am aware that British Patent No. 4,011 of 1877 describes a method of holding the umbrella open by jointing each stretcher on such a part of the rib that when the two together are at the eye the end of the runner is not in line with the eye of the rib. When the umbrella is opened, the runner passes the horizontal line and abuts against a stop. The umbrella remains open without any aid of any spring contrivances inthe ribs or on the stickhandle. I therefore disclaim the invention set forth in said British patent, and restrict my claims to the particular construction of the notch and runner herein described, by which the same act together withoutthe aid of any other stop. My invention is thus especially adapted for use without any stick when de sired, the notch and runner being then provided with knobs for moving the1n,as described above.

It is obvious that the notch A may be fitted to a solid plug of wood instead of the tube 0, and such plug be used to form the stop E when no stick is used, as in the suspended sunshade shown in Fig. 2. Such plug could be made integral with the knob F and stop E, and the upper notch, A, be secured to it, as to the stick in other constructions.

Having thus described my invention, I claim the same as follows:

tubular stop E, arranged to operate as set forth, and the knob F, attached to the runner, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set R my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

his FREDERICK LEOBAFT.

mark. Vitnesses:

THOS. S. CRANE, C. C. HnRRIcK. 

